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Lightning - Early works to 1800

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    A letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, with some observations on the effects of lightening. Read at the Royal Society July 28, and November 8, 1764.

    Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788. | Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXV. [1765]
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    A true and particular account of a storm of thunder & lightning, which fell at Richmond in Surrey, on Whit Sunday last in the afternoon, being May 20th, 1711. With an exact description, on a copper-plate, of the hurt done by it, both to the persons of the kill'd and wounded and the building on which it fell. Whereunto are added Some short Hints concerning the Nature, Causes, and Effects of Thunder and Lightning; and some Practical Reflections upon the Whole.

    | Date: [1711]
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